Home could replace XMB, and other tidbits
I wouldn’t complain.
- Home is currently capped at 60 people per room, for frame-rate issue reasons. If we can put in our two cents, we recommend a Phantasy Star Universe approach for the rooms — players, you know what we mean.
- Travel between zones is more straightforward than originally planned. You can run as well as walk, or just use the magical PSP interface to warp wherever you want.
- Many organizations desire Home to completely replace the XMB. That is, when you boot up your PS3, you start off in your room in Home.
- Work on Home will continue well into next year, so the product we get in October is in no way the final version of the program.
There’s no way they’ll force users into Home at boot. There may be an option to do that, but i just can’t see them replacing the XMB. There are *some* PS3s out in the world that have no internet connection…
nerfgun
August 13, 2007 at 1:02 pm
I imagine Home is a self-contained app that doesn’t need an internet connection just to run on the hardware, like Phantasy Star Online. It’d probably be limited to like 2 rooms and desert-empty, but i can see it. As long as it loads as quickly as the current setup, replacing the XMB with Home could revolutionize the game console OS by making that Second Life aspect the gateway to the rest of the experiences on the console, as well as the entire PlayStation Network. Particularly with online-enabled systems.
Rollin
August 14, 2007 at 12:35 am
As long as they don’t make you stomp all the cockroaches roaming around in your rooms and pull out all the weeds in your virtual backyard whenever you don’t visit your Home for more than a week, I think it would work…
InvisibleMan
August 14, 2007 at 11:30 am